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The title makes it quite self-evident that this post is going to be about a knife. Doesn't it? Last week our homework given to us by Phil out Maya tutor-technician (tutnician or technitor, if you will) was to finish modeling the combat knife we started in class, at least to a certain point.

The base image (duh).

We were given a base image to place onto a plane with which to use as reference. With the image in place we began by using the quad draw tool to create planes which were to become the handle.

The plane was then extruded to create half the handle (the knife will be mirrored and stitched together later) and the knife's button was added.

Knife handle with button visable.

Afterwards more edgeloops were added so that the screws could be added into the handle.

The inner faces of the handle were also extruded and beveled to add more depth and detail to the grip.

The screws (highlighted for your convenience).

Next was the knife blade. It was much the same as the handle in regards to all the quad drawing but made slightly more complicated but the blade's serration.

Knife blade with more edgeloops than sense.

With that done all that was in order was adding a cylinder for the round thing that can be seen in the upper right hand of the above picture. Also added was some detail on the blade near the handle which was extruded and beveled.

Next was to mirror the handle and buttons.

Moving on from there I had to mirror the knife's blade.